What a horrible Pre day yesterday. Constant freezing/rebooting!! ***

OK, so I live in RI, and we have had horrible weather this past weekend. I know that the weather cannot attribute to the Pre rebooting itself the four times it did within 1 hour's time.

I was driving to Boston, and I had my Nav going, the Pre was on the Touchstone, and I was trying to text this girl I was going to see. While texting, the letter entering suddenly stopped, and the Pre froze. I got so ****ed and new that a reboot was coming. Sure enough, the Pre rebooted itself and I lost the text that I wasn't able to send.

So the phone finally reboots, which I timed to be 3 minutes, 20 seconds (ridiculous) and I then went back to texting the girl and that text went through. I then went to text another message and the same problem came up, another FREEZE!!! and another REBOOT! This happened two more times, and decided to pull the battery. After that I didn't experience any problems. Of course at that point, I wasn't in dire need of the navigation and texting like I was when everything was going wrong for me. Why does that happen? When you need the Pre the most, it seems to fail!

What can I do about this phone freezing? Should I just Doctor the damn thing?

I was having very similar issues with my pre that I have had since the pre launched. All of my issues were a result of upgrading to OS 1.4. I would often get the "too many cards" error even with no cards open, and also it would restart on it's own whenever it felt like it (2-3 times a day, always at the worst time).

Yesterday I doctored my phone to WebOS 1.3.5, then OTA upgraded to 1.4, then restored all of my personal data....so far so good. I'd even say that it's running a little smoother.

My guess is that over the course of all the upgrades and different verisons of patches (I've been patching since I got my phone) that something in the internals went a little kittywampus. I have no proof of this, but it's working well now so I won't complain.

Even though doctoring is a hassle, it might be good to do it now and then.

I was having very similar issues with my pre that I have had since the pre launched. All of my issues were a result of upgrading to OS 1.4. I would often get the "too many cards" error even with no cards open, and also it would restart on it's own whenever it felt like it (2-3 times a day, always at the worst time).

Yesterday I doctored my phone to WebOS 1.3.5, then OTA upgraded to 1.4, then restored all of my personal data....so far so good. I'd even say that it's running a little smoother.

My guess is that over the course of all the upgrades and different verisons of patches (I've been patching since I got my phone) that something in the internals went a little kittywampus. I have no proof of this, but it's working well now so I won't complain.

Even though doctoring is a hassle, it might be good to do it now and then.

Hans

I did something similar. I had all sorts of issues with the in-place upgrade from 1.3.5.1 to 1.4. but after Doctoring back to 1.2.1 then up to 1.4 everything has been great.